It would probably be too kind to him to call it a butterly effect. The butterfly effect is about unpredictable and incalculable consequences. The consequences here were entirely calculable. He just didn’t calculate them

Dad certainly knows much more that he is telling. One kilo micro satellite why would it collide with anything if it is in its orbit? Is it moving in the direction of a collision at an enormous speed? There must be a way to avoid the collision.

Now I am thinking about all the satellites orbiting our Earth, what happens to them and the collected space junk? Is there a plan? There doesn’t seemed to have been one for plastic until it is almost too late. You frightened me with this one – well done.

Spacs junk isn’t travelling fast enough to do this much damage, though it is a problem too, My micro-spacecraft here are travelling at a significant fraction of the speed of light and so have much more momentum